MSNBC Rolls Out ‘Race For The White House’
David Gregory To Anchor Latest Election-Coverage Vehicle
By Larry Barrett -- Multichannel News, 3/10/2008 10:56:00 AM
MSNBC will bolster its election coverage next week with the debut of Race For The White House, a new program the network claims will provide “a fast-paced daily look at the election news” anchored by NBC News Chief White House correspondent David Gregory.
Race will debut Monday, March 17 at 6 p.m. (ET) and will continue "through the election and beyond" in the hopes of attracting viewers intrigued by the tight and increasingly contentious Democratic nomination race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
The new show replaces Tucker, whose host Tucker Carlson will remain with MSNBC in yet-to-be-specified capacities.
MSNBC also announced that NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell will anchor MSNBC each weekday afternoon from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. (ET).
Countdown with Keith Olbermann will now be broadcast twice in primetime, with a re-air weeknights at 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. (ET). The network is also expanding its Doc Block documentary program from two hours to three hours, airing at 11 p.m. (ET) each weeknight.
Along with the debut of Race For The White House, MSNBC will re-launch Live With Dan Abrams as Verdict With Dan Abrams, an hour-long look at each day’s top news from a legal perspective, five nights a week.
MSNBC said Race For The White House will feature reports from MSNBC and NBC correspondents around the country with the latest breaking political news and in-depth analysis of the campaigns. Tucker Carlson will remain with the network as MSNBC Senior Campaign Correspondent and will appear regularly throughout MSNBC’s program lineup.
“Viewers are incredibly engaged this election season, with a real appetite for political news,” Phil Griffin, senior vice president of NBC News and Executive in Charge of MSNBC, said in a statement. “As NBC News’ Chief White House Correspondent, David is the perfect person to lead this key hour of our election coverage.”
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Can you do anything about that god-awful theme "music"? I feel like I'm watching a monster truck ralley! It's horrible and makes the show sound trivial. Please help!
Darlene Beckwith - 5/27/2008 2:51:00 PM EDT -
After days and days of hearing that Hillary "lied again" regarding a story she has told about a girl and her baby dying because of lack of health care, and hearing it replayed over and over again, it finally comes out that the story was TRUE! Why is the media and especially MSNBC not playing a retraction over and over again? YOU WERE WRONG! Why don't you take the responsibility and play the retraction over and over again? Because it might help Hillary, that's why! You guys (who are my former heroes) are so "snowed" by O'Bama, that it is disgusting!
Elinor Shaffer - 4/8/2008 11:00:00 AM EDT -
Free Past for Pat Buchanan
Please explain to me why Pat Buchanan gets a free pass as a Racist Arsonist
which his vast past and present resume supports? Again why does “Main Stream Media†(controlled by the majority) play DOUBLE STANDARDS with their own on Air Racist Analyst P. Buchanan?
Truth in advertising is lacking as MSNBC have seem to have legitimized it by calling him a political analyst vise a Racist Arsonist on their staff.
I just find it strikingly odd as he attacks Rev Wright among others as the second coming of the “Militant Blacksâ€; all the while none of his on air colleagues seem to bring up is Racist Resume. Just check out his “A Brief for Whitey by Patrick J. Buchanan Posted: 03/21/2008. I’m sure it want be addressed by you similar Tribe’s people who controlled the Mass Media. So far only one other news program had this issue addressed by one of their guest. Thank God some else
called a Bigot when he tells you he is. Oh that’s right, its just Pat doing his usual again, however, if anyone else does it the republic may end……….
As Jake Tapper of Salon once wrote in an article, "Pat Buchanan is back... leaving a trail of racist, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic rhetorical dung behind him wherever he goes".
We have called for his removal as a pundit for CNN and now MSNBC. How dare they offer him all that air time -- AND pay him for it?
N. Diaz
San Diego, Ca
Niko Diaz - 3/31/2008 5:06:00 AM EDT -
It is interesting that Obama makes the announcement today that he would have left the church if the pastor had not retired. How long does it take for Obama to be offeded at what he hears before making a decision. I would seriously question his critical thinking skills, or he really is just a politician "blowing in the wind". K
Kathleen Green - 3/28/2008 2:45:00 PM EDT -
Why no mention of the right wing religious nuts John McCain so warmly embraces? Ask Joe about it, please.
pat humphreys - 3/26/2008 6:37:00 PM EDT
